Hello, as I wrote a few ago, my 17 months old Maxtor D540X-4K 60GB suddenly refused to work - simply stopped and even is not recognized by BIOS. I have bought an indentical HDD (with some bad sectors) on an auction in order to try to replace the electronics. Unfortunately there are some problem...

Hello to all i need to choose for some hd (not ibm maxtor, but all other productors) it's easy to find a complete chart with all indicative performances number.... but it's not for a chart with consumption of Watt and Noise level too... anyone can help me please?? i need much for...

I have just purchased a new Western Digital 80gb hard drive, I get it home, install it as master, run FDISK, and can only achieve 10gb. I have a PIII700, Bios detects the hard drive as 80gb. I have flashed to the latest bios, but still no joy, My Master drive is 40gb Maxtor, and I want the 80gb...

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:25:37 +0100 "John Smith" wrote: Seems darn expensive for a 36GB drive. Not for a 10,000 RPM 36 gig drive. J.

No. The Adaptec card writes the RAID info to a different part of the drive than the Promise & they are not in any way compatible. The easiest would be to first load the Adaptec drivers then do a drive image to a third drive (perhaps an external USB) & then restore the image to your new...

Someone else in this newsgroup has urged me to remove the ATA-133 PCI card that came with my new hard drive, and just use the ATA-100 IDE interface on the motherboard. His argument is that the extra speed of the 133 interface is virtually never needed. Anybody know if this is true? Where can I...

lavasseur patrick wrote in message ... I have a Nec Versa note VX portable computer. The hard drive is very bad, seems to be unchangeable, the BIOS prints on the screen at startup 'bad status, S.M.A.R.T'. what should I...

I'm very clueless about this... I have an ASUS A7V motherboard, with an Athlon 1GHz. Have a couple of Western Digital ATA100 hard drives (40G + 80G). So, here's the puzzler: when connected to the "default" IDE connectors of the motherboard (which I'm assuming are ATA66), the speed reported is...

Don't ask how cos I'm not really sure, but something has clearly happened to the MBR on my IBM deskstar 120GXP (61gigs official, about 57 in reality). I had three partitions: One NTFS partition installed with WINXP (about 15gigs), one FAT32 (about 30gigs), and one FAT32 (exactly 10.9gigs). I...

Occasionally I have a question re a particular hdd and DR. Thereafter I will email tech support for the hdd manufacture. I have had very detailed and supportive response at one end of the spectrum - at the other end my inquiry was not answered. I would be interested in other experiences with the...

Humble Servant wrote in message ... Greetings, Someone who really is a humble servant should grovel MUCH more enthusiastically than that. When my Thinkpad died I pulled the HD and got an adapter so I could put it...

Hi all I recently bought a WD Raptor 36Gb 10000RPM SATA drive which role is to function as OS drive in my system. I have done a fresh install of Windows XP SP1 on the drive which works super. The HDD is attached as Primary Master on my onboard SATA controller (SIL 3112) on my Abit NF7-S Version 2...

I have some obscurely badged drives that are clearly relabels are of brand name models. I have some by somebody called 'magnetic data' (at least one of which is a rebadged WD Caviar (I think, checked it last week)) and some which ID themselves as 'Vanilla White Label ' which MAY be rebadged...

My Windows 2000 pro installation has gone bad so I am booting from a Win98 boot disk into dos. I can see my C drive, but not my other rather large (100 gig) hard drive (E:). I am thinking that my Win98 boot disk needs a device driver for my Ultra66 (Promise Tech) controller? I have downloaded...

FACT : Norton Ghost 7.5 does not support ghosting hardware or software RAID configs. FACT : In some cases it may work, but never with software RAID Also couldn't find anyone on google that had steps or success doing RAID5, found lots on 0 and 1, but no 5. So heres what I did. Built a test server...

Hello again. While I await my new (reconditioned) drive from Maxtor I'd like to know how most of you partition and format new drives for a Windows system. 1) Use Maxtor MaxBlast 3 software or similar for other brands of HDD. 2) use DOS FDISK and FORMAT commands. Or 3) some other utility.

I came across this app that tells me storage situations and watches for potential problems. Tells me when file are created/deleted, changes in file/folder counts. Alerts when file starts/stops downloading, when free space runs low. Works to email me on alerts on my mobile...

I bought Partition Magic 7.0 a year or so ago, and set up 2 partitions on each of my two identical HDs. C: 11.7 GB 0.6 free (Main XP Home System) D: 44.1 GB 28.4 free (Data) E: 11.7 GB 4.6 free (Old XP Home system for emergency) F: 44.1 GB 8.5 free (Backups) My initial judgement was plainly a...

I have a Sony DRX 500ULX which can create multiple format DVD disc (DVD+/-R, DVD+/RW). I just created a DVD+RW data disc. But it cannot be read by a DVD drive on another computer and can only be read by the 500ULX. Is this normal? If I want to share my data with other computers, what DVD format...

"Barry OGrady" wrote in message ... On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 15:18:06 +0100, "Li'l ol' me" wrote: Simple question: Which ones to use and which to avoid. I saw a thread somewhere...